Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Elisa I. Cano Montero 
Author-Workplace-Name: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 
Author-Name: Clara Isabel Muñoz Colomina
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad II (Contabilidad). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Homepage:
 https://www.ucm.es//departamento-de-administracion-financiera-y-contabilidad
Author-Name: Elena Urquia Grande 
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad II (Contabilidad). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Homepage:
 https://www.ucm.es//departamento-de-administracion-financiera-y-contabilidad
Title: Agri-environmental indicators in the management of farms. the Spanish case
Abstract: The current reform of the EC Agricultural Policy decouples subsidies from production and introduces the new concept of 
	“eco-conditionality” which makes the receipt of subsidies contingent on compliance with a number of environmental standards.
	This reform, put in place by the Commission, involves a high risk that the cultivation of some Mediterranean products will be 
	abandoned. Their producers will have to meet the challenge of competitiveness and avail themselves of appropriate mechanisms 
	such as codes of good agricultural practices and the application of efficient management systems.
	The existence of a framework of indicators helps to strengthen the financial and management control of farms, something which 
	is indispensable in periods of crisis, while allowing the policy of change to be monitored.
	Our research work is based on such indicators, and aims to provide a framework of key performance indicators that will enable 
	producer groups to analyse the technical, economic, and environmental aspects of their farms. We believe that the performance 
	indicators we propose will help farmers to meet and assess requirements concerning the respect and improvement of the 
	environment, and the pursuit of quality, sustainable farming, and competitiveness. Permanent monitoring of these indicators 
	will also enable benchmarking to be carried out among farms and will provide a tool that will promote continuous improvement 
	in the financial and agricultural management of farms.
	We believe that this scenario calls for the definition of agri-environmental policies based on cause-action-effect 
	relationships between agriculture and the environment, with a view to achieving a continuous improvement in the system.
Keywords: Eco-conditionality, EC Agricultural Policy Reform, Indicators, Sustainability, Continuous improvement, Benchmarking.
Length: 31 pages
Creation-Date: 2007 
Number: 07-04
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